Public health emergency (United States)

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In the United States, a public health emergency declaration releases resources meant to handle an actual or potential public health crisis. Recent examples include:

The

The declaration of public health emergency in the

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Regional Office. Examples include allowing Medicare health plan beneficiaries to go out of network, allowing critical access hospitals to take more than the statutorily mandated limit of 25 patients, and not counting the expected longer lengths of stay for evacuated patients against the 96-hour average.[1]

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In the swine flu outbreak, the declaration allowed the distribution of a federal stockpile of 12 million doses of

Obama's choice for Secretary of HHS, Kathleen Sebelius, had not yet been confirmed, the public announcement of the emergency was made by President Obama and Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano.[7] However, Charles Johnson, acting HHS secretary, made the formal determination of a public health emergency under section 319 of the Public Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C. § 247d.[8]

The NDMS defines a military health emergency as "an emergency need for hospital services to support the armed forces for casualty care arising from a major military operation, disaster, significant outbreak of an infectious disease, bioterrorist attack, or other significant or catastrophic event."[5][6]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "HHS Acting Secretary Declares Public Health Emergency for North Dakota Storms". 2009-03-25.
  2. ^ a b "US Declares Public Health Emergency for Swine Flu". Associated Press. 2009-04-26.[dead link]
  3. ^ "Trump administration declares coronavirus emergency, orders first quarantine in 50 years". USA TODAY. 2020-02-01.
  4. ^ "Biden administration declares monkeypox a public health emergency". MSN. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
  5. ^ a b "A Public Health Emergency from the Perspective of the U.S. National Disaster Medical System (NDMS)". 2007-04-10.
  6. ^ a b "NATIONAL DISASTER MEDICAL SYSTEM MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT AMONG THE DEPARTMENTS OF HOMELAND SECURITY, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, VETERANS AFFAIRS, AND DEFENSE" (PDF). 2005-09-26. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-01-06.
  7. ^ Carrie Budoff Brown (2009-04-26). "As flu hits, holes in W.H. health team". Politico.
  8. ^ "Determination that a Public Health Emergency Exists". HHS.gov.

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